Morgan Freeman & Kamala Harris Permanently Banned From Russia, Along With Nearly 1,000 US Citizens

Morgan Freeman & Kamala Harris Permanently Banned From Russia, Along With Nearly 1,000 US Citizens

It looks like Morgan Freeman and Kamala Harris are among the list of U.S. citizens banned from entering Russia!

On Saturday (21 May), Russia’s foreign ministry released a list of 963 American citizens who are barred from travelling to their country due to their support of US-imposed “anti-Russian sanctions” nearly three months into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Reportedly, the “stop list” includes US president Joe Biden, vice president Kamala Harris, US House of Representatives speaker Nancy Pelosi, various journalists, and actor Morgan Freeman. 

In a news release, the Russian Foreign Ministry said:

“In the context of response to the constantly imposed anti-Russian sanctions by the United States and in connection with incoming requests about the personal composition of our national ‘stop list’, the Russian Foreign Ministry publishes a list of American citizens who are permanently banned from entering the Russian Federation.”

According to Russia, the reason for banning Academy Award Winning actor Morgan Freeman stems from September 2017 when the 84-year-old

“recorded a video message accusing Russia of conspiring against the United States and calling for a fight against our country”.

Morgan Freeman

Reportedly, Morgan Freeman had narrated a PSA for the Committee to Investigate Russia– a group which was set up to create awareness about Russia’s interference in the infamous 2016 US presidential election in which Hillary Clinton lost to Donald Trump.

Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton

In the PSA video, Morgan Freeman said:

“We have been attacked. We are at war. Imagine this movie script: a former KGB spy, angry at the collapse of his motherland, plots a course for revenge. Taking advantage of the chaos, he works his way up through the ranks of a post-Soviet Russia and becomes president. He establishes an authoritarian regime, then he sets his sights on his sworn enemy: the United States.”

Other prominent names on the “stop list” of nearly 1,000 US citizens include: Texas senator Ted Cruz, Democratic House representative Alexandria Ocasia-Cortez, president Joe Biden’s son Hunter, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos and several US senators who are in fact deceased, including John McCain, Harry M Reid and Orrin G Hatch.

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